How far TFL can check your oyster journeys

[Vio55]

Hello everyone, can someone please advice me, if I been using my mom freeedom pass and got caught by tfl inspectors, how far they can check the journey history from that oyster (tfl website says 8weeks) and also for how long usually they keep the CCTV records, for 30 day or longer? For example can they check who been using that oyster 8month ago? (as I read on this group they might check cameras who been using that card)
Thanks in advance !

 

[MotCO]

I don't know about the journey history per se, but if you and your Mum had made different regular journeys (e.g. you traveled to London daily to work, and your Mum made occasional visits to the local shopping centre), then a case could be made as to which journeys were yours and which were your Mum's.

 

[Watershed]

Hello everyone, can someone please advice me, if I been using my mom freeedom pass and got caught by tfl inspectors, how far they can check the journey history from that oyster (tfl website says 8weeks) and also for how long usually they keep the CCTV records, for 30 day or longer? For example can they check who been using that oyster 8month ago? (as I read on this group they might check cameras who been using that card)
Thanks in advance !

If they have been monitoring your journeys, they can see your journey history from whenever they started looking into your case. Otherwise it would be the last 8 weeks' data, or the last 8 journeys even if longer ago (as these are stored locally on the Oyster card I believe).

CCTV is generally kept for 30 days but they would only be likely to look through this on a targeted basis, i.e. to prove that it was you rather than your mother who was using the card when the card was used on a given journey.

You need to assume that they will know about any irregularities you have committed.

 

[Haywain]

Hello everyone, can someone please advice me, if I been using my mom freeedom pass and got caught by tfl inspectors, how far they can check the journey history from that oyster (tfl website says 8weeks) and also for how long usually they keep the CCTV records, for 30 day or longer? For example can they check who been using that oyster 8month ago? (as I read on this group they might check cameras who been using that card)
Thanks in advance !

If you have reasons to ask this you should probably be very concerned and assume they know a lot more than you would like them to know.

 

[Wychwood93]

If you have reasons to ask this you should probably be very concerned and assume they know a lot more than you would like them to know.

I find the TV series very enlightening! If anyone was thinking about doing anything at all dodgy, a couple of episodes would put them off!